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Here's Bob thinking out loud, "If I was a Dev...

...I'd seriously consider putting a set of "Free Respec" Contacts in the game for a month... click them...sey "Yes" to a Respec ... Respec... and do it as often as you want for the month this goes live... save a ton of troubles"

That's my theory anyway... probably someone would whine it devalues their Respec recipe they just put on the market...

Free to play... sure make Outbreak and Breakout Zones free to play... have fun getting to 50 ...

"no" to "free to play CoH" for me

I named my Medic "Sacrifice" ... it just seemed to fit ...

Just a screen like the SG costume color screen ... it would be work to set up tintable pieces for non-standard pets.

Sure, I'd love to choose different styles of military outfits, or ninja outfits, but really, just dressing them in my character's main color scheme and I'd be happy.

We saw this with the Phantom Army, and controller pets...

They should just change the flag on the respec missions and allow them to be run for respecs as many times as someone wants to refill the mission respec slot.

OK...6 slotted Rest it is...

or...maybe not...

Other than usnig it near mission doors while waiting for the team to assemble, or just inside the mission door in case of a wandering patrol, I've used it after clicking rest for added security.

So, pretty much patrol safety.

I do find Praetoria harder than CoH, and a bit more the Cov... I wonder if some of the ambush timers are bad across the game though.

Me and the missus just started up our first Arachnos characters and hit Mongooses Bank mission... after clearing the vault room and prying open the vault... we had 1 normal abmush while getting the door opened, then a simulataneous "pop up" of a the remaining ambush mobs all at once in the vault room right as we got the money clicked.

An exciting time for sure!... we each clicked pretty much our whole tray... and we did beat them

At the sight of all of them spawning... at least 9 , maybe 15 ... I thought,"Wow! Just like some of the reports from Praetoria"

OK, so most of us vets have and idea of what enhancement is what regardless of the cryptic naming of some of the DO's and SO's.

Still, the other night, it took me a fair amount of time on my lowbie to find that Natural / Magic Flight was "Li Tieh Kuai's Gem" ...but strangely I seem to have right clicked clicked the jump and intangibilty duration (anyone ever slot that?) several times in my searching.

So... Quality of Life suggestion.

Could you have some intern go through and rename every DO/SO Enhancement something like "Flight" ... with a right click info of "Li Tieh Kuai's Gem" or maybe name them "Flight - Li Tieh Kuai's Gem"

This sort of thing was done to some sets in the past...the Mutant SOs "Catalyst: Amplified Flying " but from my perspective the Science SO "Ionic Bombardment" doesn't scream "Flight" to me either, but then, I don't make a lot of Science origin characters.

Sometimes, I even aim toward certain origins specifically because I DO know what the enhancements (and store locations) are.

Natural and Tech (for instance) "Ascendance Device" DO, "Dragon Flight" SO, and "WetWare Eng Auxiliary Boosters" SO -do suggest Flight to me ... Sci/techs "Micro Adaptive Flow Control" not as much

Think of the new folks... the names are colorful ,but a barrier

I think its a smoosh together of Zone Glowie ...into zowie

I so loved the Hollows stuff when it came out mostly because it gave me an alternate to the very common (at the time) missions in King's Row of beating up x number of CoT in KR.

Maybe it was because I had a lot of magic origins?

At that time, almost the only place the CoT ever appeared were on the rooftops... and only at night. I can't tell you how many fire escapes I spiraled up to get to the roof... hoping that the green glow didn't vanish cause the sun came up while climbing, or that no one else was up there already.

I got good later at combat jumping ledge to ledge to power up to the roof later.

When the Hollows came out it was tough... tough getting to your missions... and tough surviving them ... remember when the Outcast electrical lieutenants used to heal their team?

I do miss taking out my 50 and doing healing runs though the Hollows to keep the younger crowd alive and debt free, or rez them in the zone, so they didn't have to run back from Atlas.

I'd like it if you could select from the flypose animations that would be the default when actively flying forward... in the power animation selection screen.

I'd love a "Tray Lock" button for the power trays. maybe at the far right side of each of the trays.
Clicking it would make it so that the bar would not let power icons move, which has happened a bunch lately mouse clicking in laggy situations. It's disconcerting having Build UP, Boost Range, Full Auto, and Flame Thrower all switch positions.

Most importantly, clicking "Tray Lock" button would not allow a tray to cycle its number. Nothing is more annoying, and sometimes deadly, than reaching up to tray 3 to mouse click a power in slot 1 and miss, thus, changing the whole tray to tray 2 or 4... until i can carefully get it back.

The annoying thing about Peregrine Island for me is the amount of "Gee the Carnies and/or Malta are raising a ruckus on Peregrine... go beat up 20-50 of them..."

...then I have trouble finding many of them ...


What do I find everywhere constantly causing trouble?

Nemesis

So why don't I get a majority of "Go pound on the Nemesissies" missions?
Give me a "Jaeger Meister" badge or something...

(I'd love to have the caltrop supply contract for the Knives... easy money!)

Then again, if they ever get around to a zone revamp, drop the "go arrest X" missions altogether.

For soloing, I'd make a second build just for that.

You'll be able to skip a bunch of primary FF stuff on a solo build. Keep PFF, Dispersion Bubble... and take tons of attacks and such.

Swap back to a rounded build that is heavier on the FF set for teaming.

No

All of us Iron Eagle players put them out. Nothing better than seeing a foe attack it instead... then miss, and try again.

KnockBack Controller <RIP > - (FF/Energy Defender) used to bubble everyone's just so foes miss even more

I wonder if removing all entries in both bind files that are the same would help?

Or perhaps you will need a pair of files each?
/macro P1a "bindloadfile player1a.txt"
/macro P1b "bindloadfile player1b.txt"
/macro P2a "bindloadfile player2a.txt"
/macro P2b "bindloadfile player2b.txt"

so that you don't go over whatever limit is involved.
I've seen this message sometime before, but don't know what amount triggers it.

make sure the box for an amount has a number in it. If it's blank it won't dorp anything on the market.

The real danger mission with taarna was one of mine we ran while you walked your dogs. We went in and did it. It was spawned for 3 I'm pretty sure... with just the 2 of us.

Next time we should get you in the door first at least.

I'm used to being in the thick of things from running my first /kin controller to 50... that especially backing 2 melee types, that way I get the transfusions and power siphons.

I'm usually good at watching everyone's hp bars from running an empath to 50 the slow way, but sometimes forget to watch my own! Though, I'm relearning thatskill in the eagle play.

It really does add a sense of urgency not allowing for death!

(edited in: The game's recent tendency to not take mouse clicks on my inspiration tray has also increased the "excitement level". It often seems to take about 3 for them to go off. Its very disconcerting to click and insp...wait a sec or two... go back to attacking... only to find the purple or green never actually went off...that happened more than once last night for me)

Largish groups of Vahzilok at low levels make for a very exciting Iron Eagles run. Ka Phoenix (fire/kin control), Djinni (fire armor/dark melee tank), and T A A R N A (sword scrapper?)(a non- eagle char of an eagle player) ran a couple along with a couple COT annoying caves .

Came very close to a team wipe more than once, but we lived ... Taarna died once in an elevator room full of vahz... i just clicked to door down in time. Multiple toxic vomit cones... yikes. I never did see the point of hitting lowbies with an almost unresisted damage type...

Fun and exciting, there was one point where I almost clicked self destruct just to save the others when I thought we were all going down. Transfusion hitting, a aoe sword swipe and pbaoe ... i think... and the whole group of vahz fell over

Good times!

One other thing that's handy to do...

I always put "H:" or "V:" at the start of my subject line so I can tell which side sent (and can use) the mail.

It's nice to use the mail to clear a spot in maxed out salvage on the fly in a mission too.

I'm back from a weeks computer withdrawl ...

... hopped on last night for a bit... but didn't stay much more than one solo mission ...

getting enough lag and trying to adjust my settings ... got it fairly well set, but a bit laggier than I'm used to on the mouse input especially when clicking the odd power

didn''t want to lose my Iron Eagle tweaking settings so didn't hang out...swapped to one of my many alts

I'll probably pop in and out of my 2 IEs... but mostly wait for a patch or two to really get in and play them... hopefully by the end of the week

Keep in mind that the servers have differing amounts hardware assigned, so getting into the yellow server status means only that the equipment is getting loaded up.